Meranti Marine Quotes & Sayings

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence. — Marvin Hamlisch

We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct. — Ethel M. Dell

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer. — Richard Bach

My father ... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him. — Robin McKinley

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain. — John Le Carre

It was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture. — Mary McCarthy

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements ... — Eddie Lacy

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box? — Nathan Hill

The most important political effect of this displacement of civil by enterprise association has been the gradual loss of authority and decision-making from the bottom of society, and its transfer to the top. If you supply society with a dynamic purpose, especially one conceived in these linear terms, as moving always forwards towards greater equality, greater justice, greater prosperity or, in the case of the EU, 'ever closer union', you at the same time license the would-be leaders. You give credentials to those who promise to guide society along its allotted path, and you confer on them the authority to conscript, dictate, organize and punish the rest of us, regardless of how we might otherwise wish to lead our lives. In particular, you authorize the invasion of those institutions and associations that form the heart of civil society, in order to impose on them a direction and a goal that may have nothing to do with their intrinsic nature. — Roger Scruton

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics. — Ruth Brown

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. — John Dewey

I see the eyes but not the tears
This is my affliction. — T. S. Eliot

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. — Alan Arkin